Asian Drama

Celebrities’ moms observe their sons and record precious moments in “Mom’s Diary.”

Celebrity dads are left to care for their kids alone for 48 hours without the help of anyone, while their wives leave the home to enjoy some relaxing time off. The wives are shown leaving the home before the 48 hours begins and coming back to greet their family once the 48 hours have ended. During the 48 hours, the dads and children are either doing a task the wives have written out for the dads to complete or the dads exploring new activities with their kids. Occasionally celebrity friends of the dads will stop by to interact with the kids.

A new camping trip set in southern France. Traveling around Europe using camping sites instead of hotels, rental cars instead of trains, and local supermarkets instead of restaurants.

(Source: Korean = newsis.com)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Sunday

When global superstar Piuno is threatened by those who wish to see him brought low, there’s only one thing he can do to save his reputation and his career: work at a pet daycare. Pushing aside his severe dislike for animals, Piuno begins working alongside the daycare’s director, Dae Byeol, who helps him find ways to overcome the trauma that first inspired his hatred of animals. As his heart begins to soften, unexpected feelings for Dae Byeol begin to arise. Could their current working relationship grow into something more?

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 15 min.

Aired On: Monday

The main segment of the show, called "Idol of the Week", features idol groups as the invited guests, and usually consists of several featured corners.

Female celebrities start a new challenge: playing soccer! Those who want to do soccer, find new excitement in their middle-aged life, or have a refreshment after a long hour of housework, step up to be a soccer player. Models, singers, comediennes, actors, and so on form four teams. Four former players from the National Soccer Team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup join as the head coaches and trains the women. Let's find out which team will win the first-ever female celebrities mini-soccer league.

Love Naggers are back with Season 3. An impregnable data of breakups is established through season 1 and 2! After the panels have nagged strongly on love stories that are unbelievable than a soap opera, more and more of troubled men and women are being released from their bitter relationships. It will diagnose their relationship more strongly and with more determination. Diagnosing break-ups to people in bloody fights who are fooled to think that it's a romance continues. Romance destroying talk show, Love Naggers Season 3!

I'm SOLO is a dating reality show inviting fourteen men and women "desperate" to find true love. In the SOLO world, where they can only focus on finding the one, they start the most complicated but thrilling love adventure of their lives. You can enjoy watching the romantic and nuanced interaction between the contestants and guessing who would be the couple.

It is a sitcom talk show program set in a school. In each episode, new celebrity guests appear as transfer students at the 'Brother School' where seven mischievous brother students wait for them. The show consists of several dynamic sessions. In ‘Guess About Me,’ Celebrity guests create random, secret questions about themselves. Then the hosts called 'Knowledgeable Bros' make humorous guesses to get the answers. Another session is ‘Bros Inside’, an ad-lib skit show, where entertainers are given only the setting for a story and have to perform completely ad-libbed skits.

This program is to recollect the daily lives of celebrities and form its unique sympathies among the singles within South Korea by showing celebrities' lives without significant filtering.

Running Man is a reality-variety show that stars Yoo Jae Suk and many other celebrities. In each episode, they must complete missions at famous landmarks to win the race. The missions almost always feature running, hence the title, and the name tag ripping game is filled with tension as each member struggles to survive.

Baek Hyun Woo, who is the pride of the village of Yongduri, is the legal director of the conglomerate Queens Group, while chaebol heiress Hong Hae In is the “queen” of Queens Group’s department stores.

“Queen of Tears” will tell the miraculous, thrilling, and humorous love story of this married couple, who manage to survive a crisis and stay together against all odds.

(Source: Soompi)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

Na Moon Young is married to Cha Sung Jae, but Cha Sung Jae suddenly disappears. Na Moon Young tries to find her husband and uncover the secret behind his disappearance.

Meanwhile, Ha Yeon Joo is neighbors with Na Moon Young. There is also a mysterious man named Do Jin Woo who holds a key to the secret of Cha Sung Jae's disappearance.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

It is a reality show that observes actors' daily lives, contemplating their careers and always looking to grow and change.

A high-teen noir romance under the theme of 'Texas Hold 'em' amid the recent popularity of hold 'em poker as a sport in Korea.

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An asteroid is on course to crash into Earth in 200 days and destroy the planet. The world soon learns of the news and falls into confusion.

Jin Se Kyung works as a middle-school teacher in Woongchun City. She learns about the impending end of the world. She decides to quit her job and do volunteer work at a child and youth division in city hall. She struggles to save children in danger. Her boyfriend of many years is Ha Yoon Sang. He currently works as a researcher at a biotechnology research institute in the United States. After news of the end of the world is released, he flies back to South Korea to be with Jin Se Kyung.

Woo Sung Jae is an assistant priest at a Catholic Church. The presiding priest at the church ran away after news broke out about the approaching asteroid. Woo Sung Jae now takes care of the parishioners at the church. Kang In A is a commander of a combat support battalion. She goes around Woongchun City, which has been ruined, to provide supplies, transport and security.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Shumatsu no Furu" (終末のフール / ) by Kotaro Isaka (伊坂 幸太郎).

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Cinematography: Son Won Ho [손원호]

Cha Soo Hyuk is focused only on his survival, without any grand goals. He reunites with Lee Yoon Dae, who he was very close with. Yoon Dae was living with his girlfriend but now has nowhere to go. They end up living together.

(Source: TMDb)

Episodes: 5

Duration: 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Thursday

Wish I Have, Kara S01 (2024)

After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in LA summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, Hwa Rim senses a dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'.

In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath.

(Source: showbox.co.kr)

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

In his 40s, the stuntman Woo-seok wishes to go back to the prime of his life in 1997, before a facial scar ended his acting dreams. One day, he purchases five talismans from an unknown monk, hoping to change his life. However, during a film shoot, a car accident transports him back to his high school days in 1997. Now living as the high school student, he embarks on a project to revamp his past life, which was filled with a troublesome father, son, and husband.

'Crime Scene' is a mystery game show in which six celebrity players become suspects in a murder case and they have to prove themselves innocent while at the same time try to solve the mystery of who killed the victim among them like the game 'Clue'.

Four ex-couples live under one roof for three weeks to find love-new or re-visited. Knowing everyone’s ex is in the house, they must hide who that is by pretending to be strangers. While keeping that a secret, they try to get to know others and build new relationships throughout their stay. Through the EX-REVIEW and EX-CHAT systems, singles have opportunities to learn about their new date partners from the ex of that person. Will new relationships begin? Or do ex-couples rekindle their feelings?

(Source: CJ ENM)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 2 hr. 6 min.

Aired On: Friday

Celebrities are here to find your home sweet home! The show features two teams of celebs competing to help their clients find the new houses for them. As "real estate coordinators," celebs visit realtors and discover houses that fit the needs of the clients. They aren't afraid of cold weather, continuous allies to go through, nor stiff steps to climb. In the end, clients grades how much they are happy with celebs' proposals. Which team will get the clients pleased?

A new factual talk show explores human nature by examining the lives of two characters with the exact nature but different life paths and the devastating consequences that 'one difference' makes.

Nowadays Parenting My Dear Child is a show that provides parenting/child caring consults to families. The clients - usually parents who have problems with child care - asks to help them how to care for children properly. Then, a group of celebrities who have experiences in child care, as well as child care and parenting experts, will offer solutions and helps training. The show also provides knowledge and trendy information on how to raise the children. Ultimately, the program aims to make changes in families, relatives, friends, and everyone in society for providing better care for children.

Episodes: N/A

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Friday

No planning, no googling, and of course, no famous spots! Jun and Kwak embark on unplanned food trips following recommendations from locals. This is the adventure of two foodies that captures the stories of people and the flavors of the neighborhood.

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City Fishers, the most popular fishing variety show in Korea, comes back with the new season. Let's enjoy the new fishing trip with the three Lees, who are still crazy about fishing, and the guest anglers.

Episodes: 10

Si Young has been chosen to play the lead role in an experimental art film centered around her dance major. Along with her college friend Chae Yoon, they perform geometric dance routines as part of a shamanic ceremony as directed by the film's director. However, their world is turned upside down when a production team member suddenly falls from the roof, but their seemingly lifeless body begins to move and come to life.

(Source: ktalpha.kr)

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

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Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday

Eun Soo Hyun is a psychology professor and a famous writer, but her life has completely changed. Her young son dies unjustly. Making things worse, the person responsible for her son’s death isn’t punished by the law. Eun Soo Hyun loses hope in this world. She decides to punish the person responsible for her son’s death by herself. Her life is still in pain and despair. Somehow, Eun Soo Hyun gets involved with other people who suffer from pain similar to hers and solves their mysterious cases. They slowly get healed in the process.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 14

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

Six residents try to uncover unprecedented incidents and mysteries in apartments in South Korea in this true-story mystery variety show that transcends time and space! Each episode will be based on real events and have a unique setting in a different period and location, stimulating viewers’ investigative skills and memories of each era.

Who will be the main character who will solve the secret?

(Source: tvN)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday